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‘I Couldn’t Breathe’: U.S. Labor Activist Chris Smalls Tortured by Israel

Chris Smalls, Founder of the Amazon Labor Union, joins the show after being beaten, arrested, and detained by Israeli forces for attempting to bring aid to starving Palestinians in Gaza.

As the only Black person onboard the aid flotilla and the only one assaulted by Israel, Smalls describes his experience with the racist brutality of the apartheid state and the urgent need for the labor movement to take action for Gaza.

Labor activist Chris Smalls (@Shut_DownAmazon) recounts the racist abuse he faced in Israeli detention after sailing to Gaza to break the siege:

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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